Edu Dracena
| Edu Dracena | ||
 Edu Dracena (2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Eduardo Luís Abonízio de Souza | |
| birthday | May 18, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Dracena ( SP ), Brazil | |
| size | 187 cm | |
| position | Central defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1995-1999 | Guarani FC | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999-2002 | Guarani FC | 53 (1) |
| 2002 | → Olympiacos Piraeus (loan) | 5 (0) |
| 2003-2006 | Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte | 89 (5) |
| 2006-2009 | Fenerbahçe Istanbul | 72 (5) |
| 2009-2014 | FC Santos | 115 (7) |
| 2015 | Corinthians São Paulo | 16 (2) |
| 2016– | Palmeiras São Paulo | 42 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| -2001 | Brazil U20 | |
| -2004 | Brazil U-23 | 8 (0) |
| 2004-2007 | Brazil | 3 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2017 |
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Edu Dracena (born May 18, 1981 in Dracena , São Paulo ), actually Eduardo Luís Abonízio de Souza , is a Brazilian football player who also has Italian citizenship. The central defender is under contract with FC Santos .
Career
society
Edu Dracena began his career in 1995 as a youth player with Guarani FC from Campinas . There he played his first game as a professional soccer player in 1999. Thereafter, Olympiacos Piraeus borrowed Edu Dracena for half a season in the 2002/03 season, but he only made sporadic appearances (five league games). After the short European stint he returned to Guarani FC; this transferred him for the 2003 season to Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte . At Cruzeiro he celebrated winning the Brazilian Championship and the Brazilian Cup in 2003. In the same year he was elected to the South American Golden Team .
At the end of summer 2006 he moved again across the Atlantic for a fee of 5.7 million euros, this time to the traditional Turkish club Fenerbahçe Istanbul . There he signed a four-year contract. In his first year he became a Turkish champion . On May 19, 2007 he scored the 500th goal for Fenerbahçe against city rivals Galatasaray and celebrated his first goal for Fenerbahçe. His contract was dissolved at the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Fenerbahçe SK had too many foreign players under contract and had to part with Edu because of the foreigner regulation in the Süper Lig . He was also injured.
Then Edu Dracena returned to his homeland in Brazil and joined FC Santos at the end of September 2009 . There he signed a contract until December 31, 2012. In the 2010 season he won the Brazilian Cup with the team . He scored an important goal in the final second leg. In 2011 he won the Copa Libertadores with Santos , the most important title in South American club football .
National team
After playing for the U20 and U23 national team, he was called up to the Brazilian senior team in 2003 and was part of the Brazil squad in the 2003 Confederation Cup , but he did not play a single game in the tournament. His first international match in the Seleção took place on May 20, 2004 in a friendly against France . While Carlos Dunga was the national coach of Brazil, Edu Dracena belonged steadily in the expanded squad of the Seleção . Edu Dracena has played three full international matches so far.
successes
Brazilian national team
- Winning the U-20 South American Championship : 2001
- Winning the tournament in Toulon : 2002
Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
- Brazilian Cup Winner : 2003
- Brazilian champion : 2003
- Appointment to the Golden Team of South America: 2003
- 3 × winning the state championship of Minas Gerais : 2003, 2004, 2006
Fenerbahçe Istanbul
FC Santos
- 3 × win of the State Championship of São Paulo : 2010, 2011, 2012
- Brazilian Cup Winner : 2010
- Winning the Copa Libertadores : 2011
Corinthians
Palmeiras
Web links
- Official website of Edu Dracena
- Edu Dracena in the database of weltfussball.de
- Edu Dracena in the SambaFoot.com database
- Edu Dracena in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Edu Dracena in the Turkish Football Federation database
- Edu Dracena - player profile at FC Santos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fenerbahçe announces the engagement of Edu Dracena on August 30, 2006
- ↑ Contract with Edu Dracena is terminated / 600,000 euros compensation from August 18, 2009 on GazeteFutbol.de
- ↑ Edu Dracena wanted to go to GazeteFutbol.de on August 27, 2009
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: FC Santos announces the commitment of Edu Dracena from September 28, 2009 on SantosFC.com.br
- ↑ FC Santos Cup winner despite defeat on August 5, 2010 on kicker.de
- ↑ Match statistics for the match: France vs. Brazil from May 20, 2004 on Weltfussball.de
- ↑ Carlos Dunga: "Both have been on my list of 40 names for a long time" from March 14, 2007 on kicker.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dracena, Edu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Souza, Eduardo Luís Abonízio de (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dracena |